Author: Dave

Here is a progress report from MSNBC’s Cosmic Log about the status of the Bussard Fusion Experiment, WB-7. Currently, the most promising path toward electrostatic fusion runs through Santa Fe, N.M., where a team at EMC2 Fusion Development Corp. is currently trying to validate Bussard’s results. The team’s leader, Richard Nebel, told me this week…

Our next stop was the local Chamber of Commerce, located on the second floor of what looked like a pawnshop. Inside, we found a plump black man who was busy packing boxes. “We’re looking for Mr. Foster,” I said to the man. “I’m Foster,” he said, not looking up. “We were told that you were…

Tom has graciously provided a pdf of his most recent Analog article The World’s Simplest Fusion Reactor Revisited for your edification and enjoyment. Please read the following and then follow the link provided for your own copy. Tom sends his regards to all. Enjoy! Copyright 2007, 2008, by Tom Ligon. This article was first published…

Eric in some private e-mails thinks I have been too soft on Hillary lately. He is probably right. With Hillary rising in the polls again I think it is time to give her a few whacks. She says there is no military solution to what we face in Iraq. How does she explain that the…

Eric has a bit up on how the anti-Evolutionists can beat the arguments for evolution in 5 minutes or less. Here is how to beat their argument in less than 15 seconds. It’s the Internet Age – why waste time? My god is more powerful than yours. He set the Universe in motion billions of…

We have been a little light on classical music lately. So here is a bit. Ruslan-yn-Fryslan, that is: Russia in the Dutch Friesland province. Violonist Galina Rezaeipour from Minsk and the Fries orchestra. Arnaud Oosterbaan conducting.

Part 1 Part 2 The 60s represented a period of unregulated therapy. However, not all of those participating were uninformed. A lot of the misfortune of that era was due to government hysteria. Had the government actually provided true and useful information much of the damage would have been mitigated. “Unless we put medical freedom…

I wonder if these are the originals or the expurgated versions? Here is the link: Obama’s books. Obama’s Books another link. Direct links: Audacity of Hope [pdf] inspired by the Great Jeremiah Wright. Dreams From My Father [pdf] inspired by his socialist father. And an essay by his socialist father Problems Facing Our Socialism [pdf]…

Via Jack Carino: Tech Support from the 1930s: How to dial a rotary phone. Jack is a friend from the Philippines who I met through Dani Molintas who wrote A History of Addiction. You can read more Dani at her blog Carpe Diem. You can read more Jack at Jack Carino. Jack is a collector…

For those of you who prefer the Patti Smith version. Patti wrote the song with Bruce Springsteen.

Nanocomp Technologies has announced a breakthrough in carbon nanotube production. They can make fibers in the 1 mm length range. This makes possible carbon nanotube cloth. Carbon nanotubes have wonderful properties. Very high strength. Light weight. Good electrical and thermal conductivity. However, up to now, competitive commercial manufacturing processes have generally produced only short carbon…

Watch the video. Then contact these people: House of Representatives The Senate The President This shit (and if you watch the whole video that is no exaggeration) needs to get fixed at once. Total Bravo Sierra. H/T Instapundit

Dennis The Peasant has a wonderful post up about the difficulties of being an uber feminist in an age of Political Correctness. It all revolves around Amanda Marcotte and some very delightful if politically incorrect illustrations. H/T Insty Cross Posted at Power and Control

I saw Chrisse do this at On The Waterfront Music Festival in Rockford, Illinois. She was kickin. I don’t know the line up for this year, but if you check back at the link it should be announced in another few months. It is always a great party and probably more music for the money…

Who is the Devil? That would be me. Who says so? That would be Obama’s Spiritual Mentor, the person who coined the phrase Obama used as the title of one of his books The Audacity of Hope, the irreverend Jeremiah Wright. “Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man ‘the…

If you want to keep up on supply and demand fundamentals Purchasing Magazine and their e-mail newsletter is an excellent resource. Forgive the ads that come with the video. It is how they make the $$$ that helps them keep up with the news. If you qualify Purchasing Magazine is free. If you don’t qualify…

What is Gnip Gnop? Ping pong spelled backwards. Officially Table Tennis. And what is so important about that? Let me see if I can narrow it down some. It is about state government. Illinois State Government. It is about FOO. FOO? That would be Friends of Obama (D, Rezko). Also FODu and FODa. That would…

Don Surber has a nice bit on how Obama is self destructing. Or is it self deconstructing. Well what ever Obama is doing to himself there are a lot of twists and turns. Lots of them. Lots and lots of them. He’s looking less like Kennedy, and more like Steve Urkel. In the 1980s, a…

H/T Insty